My time machine cant find my time capsule

I have set up my time capsule - it shows a green light and everything seems to be cool.
When I want to set up my time machine I choose>select backup disk and then I cant choose my time capsule, i can only choose 'set up time capsule'
- what is wrong?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Be sure you followed all the steps in the Time Capsule Setup guide that came with the TC.
See #Q1 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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Please use Pondini's Time Machine Troubleshooting. You haven't provided any information so that's about the best we can offer at this point. Please complete your profile and be more descriptive when posting. Remember we aren't there to see your system, verison of OS X, or what you're doing so we rely on you for that info.
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Hello, I accidentally deleted some ical files from my preferences but now I can't find them on my Time Machine back up. I thought that Time machine backed up my entire hard drive? Can anyone help me or advise me how to finds these lost files?
Thanks in advance.

Read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

HT201250 After installing wireless KB and MouseTime Machine cant find external HD after a year of no problems

Please HELP I know there is a Mac Genius out there some where.
The only thing I can think of is I accendently unpluged External HD USB. I tried alll the basics.

Hi, Where were you booted from to use Disk Utility? Sounds like it wasn't the Restore partition, & you erased the whole Drive instead of just the OSX partition!???
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found a 15" ,Macbook Pro 10.6.3 installation disk
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While looking for answers to my problem there are several here but none quite fit my problem. I just purchased an A1335 1tb time capsule and upon receiving it started to set it up. My macbook did not find it at first wirelessly till I hooked it up to an ethernet cable. I went through settings and tried to set it up only as wireless network for now seeing as I dont have DSL or cable internet at the moment. However after I finished it went to reset ans restart everything and then it came up with an error ans said now it cant find it all. SO I turned it off and restarted manually thinking it should at least see it. I cant get anything. and to top it off the machine is flashing some sort of error code and I have no way of telling what cause I cant find it. haha
I have even tried resetting it several times to no avail. ideas on what to do would be helpful other than mailing it back. thanks

We will try to adjust the settings on your Time Capsule first, without completely reconfiguring it, but that may be necessary if these steps do not work correctly.
Make sure that you have an Ethernet cable connected from the modem to the WAN port (circle of dots icon) on the Time Capsule
Connect your spare Ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule to your Mac
Restart the modem, the Time Capsule and the Mac
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
If you are able to access the settings of the Time Capsule, click the Internet icon and make sure that your settings look like this:
Connect Using = Ethernet
Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)
Click Update at the lower right of the window and the Time Capsule will restart in 25-30 seconds
Restart the Mac and leave the Ethernet cable connected for now. See if you can use your browser to get an Internet connection.
Post back on your progress

I have a time capsule that has worked flawlessly for several years. I recently upgraded my iMac OS to 10.8.4 and coincidently (or not) have started having some issues with backups. When I go into time machine, it struggles to find the time capsule disk

I have to unplug my time capsule and reboot it. Is there a diagnostic routine I can run or any error detection I can look for?

You are absolutely right.. when apple changed significant features in Lion and Mountain Lion .. they introduced a bunch of issues into networking which are bugs to this day..unacknowledged.. and without much that will fix them.. other than your reboot strategy.. which is like.. well that other OS.. where continual reboots are considered normal.
Old TC may also just suffer from age.. we continually tell people they have a lifespan.. 3years is the reliable span.. after that expect anything.. sudden death.. slow decline.. continual hassles and problems. If the backups are important to you.. then it is telling you in a very clear way.. replace me.. I am no longer happily providing services promised.
Now to specifics.. we don't know what the problem is.. if we knew we could give some work around.
The problem is odd in that it doesn't affect everyone.. if it starts .. people find it starts several months in to ownership.. it is never cured.. or even curable.. something like DNS or ARP table is being lost.. but it is not either of those things.
Is there a diagnostic routine I can run or any error detection I can look for?
Nothing much shows up anywhere. Including the TC log or local logs. It simply has lost the TC disk but not internet.
So.
Some things do help.
I don't know if you have pondini's resources.. TM is a complex piece of software.. it has multiple issues.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Look at A1 .. load the widget.
A5 .. verify the backup.
A4 .. reset TM.
All of those things can help.. look at some of the typical problems.. C12 and C17 being the most common since Lion.. and exacerbated in Mountain Lion.. not fixed.
Some suggestions.
1. Keep names short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. See C9 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
2. Do not use 7.6.3 firmware... go back to 7.6.1 or even better 7.5.2 on an old one.
Firmware downgrade is easy in new utility. Hold down the option key whilst selecting version.
3. I recommend a very short dhcp lease time.. 20min for example. In whatever device is the router .. that can help keep things up to date.. and use dhcp reservation again to see if the address info helps to keep things updated.
4. Do turn on ipv6 local link.. which you need to anyway with 6.3 utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4597
5. If you are using a desktop.. an external drive is faster.. more reliable and easier than TC for Time Machine backups..
6. Consider using CCC or another backup software.. if you want to continue to use network drive.
7. Although using 6.3 airport utility has some advantages.. it is also devoid of a lot of tools that are in v5.6 airport utility.. well worth loading into at least one computer on the network.. if you only have Mountain Lion now here is one method.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn’t downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.
Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.
For screen shots see this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

I just purchased Time Capsule today. I ONLY want to use it as an external drive. I do not need it for Time Machine. I can see the TC in my finder, but when I click on a file or video to drag and drop, I get message that TC can't be modified. Help please

I just purchased Time Capsule today. I ONLY want to use it as an external drive. I do not need it for Time Machine. I need to free up room on my computer. As of now, I can't even load updates. I can see the TC in my finder, but when I click on a file or video to drag and drop, I get message that TC can't be modified. Help please!

I agree with Kappy.. passing files and especially via wireless is slow as slow.
Just need to be sure your TC is the new AC model??
And the OS on the computer is Lion?
Have you completed the setup of the TC via the utility? You do still need to get internet via the TC so it has to be plugged into the main router..
Give us the full picture of the network.
Then we can help you get into it.. whether you should put your files on it is another question.

HT201514 i can't see the time capsule from airport utilities. i did follow "From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Choose View Time Machine. Set Time Machine to On if it is off. .....but i couldn't find the time capsule from airport utility.....

i did follow "From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Choose View > Time Machine. Set Time Machine to On if it is off "
. .....but i couldn't find the time capsule from airport utility..... why?

Are you using a new 802.11ac Time Capsule - the "tall" one - and are you still using Mac OS X 10.6.8?
You need OS X 10.7.5 "Lion" or later, or an iOS device, to configure an 802.11ac Time Capsule:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1645/en_US/airport_time_capsule_802 11ac_setup.pdf
See page 12.

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What role and how does it connect to your broadband??
If you did a hard reset you cannot use it until you complete the setup.. and the previous password will be wiped.. so you cannot use it anyway.
Isolate the TC completely from the network.. plug in ethernet LAN port to a single computer.. which is also totally isolated from the network. Press the reset and start again..
Are you using Snow Leopard as per your list of products or have you updated recently to ML.. this is a common issue after an update.

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Hi,
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Time Machine no longer finds the Time Capsule Disk on my network.
Five minutes before upgrading it however performed successfully a last backup.
I found several posts on this forum and proposed solutions:
- restarted both the mac and capsule
- deleted the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist (twice rebooting in between)
Still have the issue.

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I have an iMac and a MacBook.
I can access the internet with both Macs using my time capsule.
I can access the Time Capsule with my iMac and use it with Time Machine for backups.
I can't use my Time Capsule for Time Machine backup since my MacBook can't identify Time Capsule as a drive for this purpose.
Any suggestions on what I should do to have my MacBook recognize my Time Capsule for Time Machine use?
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So the TC does not show up as an available drive at all in the MBP.. what weird things happen??
Use finder, go, go to server, and use AFP://ipoftimecapsule. (that being the IP address of the Time Capsule)
In router mode and at default it is 10.0.1.1 but check.
If it doesn't work tell us the IP of the TC .. and how it is setup, router or bridge.
IP of the mac that works, and IP of the MBP that doesn't work.
I am assuming you have done the more basic stuff.
Pondini might help you.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

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Apple keeps books for a short time (used to be 40 days. I've not seen a recent time frame)
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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight as described here. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can also use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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